Description
I tried to chirp for help Sa3douni, Sa3douni (help me, help me) Yet everyone was caught up in their conversations In a language I couldn’t understand (A.N Year 8) ‘What if we encourage EAL/D students to use all their languages when learning in English?’ As the student who wrote the above poem so poignantly reminds us, many students experience challenges in English classrooms that prioritise monolingual practices, and where teachers’ use of engaging, inclusive pedagogy is often diminished in response to high stakes testing pressures (Berliner, 2011; Dutton & Rushton, 2018b). In this interactive workshop we will showcase creative strategies from our ‘Identity Texts Project’ that develop students’ linguistic and cultural resources and help them represent their languages and identity. These will include: the use of home language(s) and English (translanguaging) in crafting poetry and readers’ theatre, language mapping, and examples from a connected curriculum initiative involving English, Music and Art teachers. All strategies lead to the creation of identity texts (Cummins & Early, 2011) that draw on students’ background stories and shape connections with their community. By employing these creative strategies in the translanguaging space (Li Wei, 2014), we can acknowledge students’ diverse backgrounds, and honour the communities, languages and identity of all students.Period | 7 Jul 2020 |
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Event title | AATE/IFTE 'IF' 2020 Conference: Inventing futures, ideas in flight, implementing frameworks |
Event type | Conference |
Location | Sydney, Australia, New South WalesShow on map |
Degree of Recognition | International |
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Activities
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Representing language and identity: Translanguaging poetry pedagogy
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Confirming Identity and engaging writers in the middle years
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Poetry, Literacy and confirming student identity
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Creative English Pedagogy in the Translanguaging Space
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Research Outputs
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Making space in our schools for children to develop their creativity
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Confirming identity using drama pedagogy: English teachers' creative response to high-stakes literacy testing
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My language is in my heart and my head: hearing student voices in multilingual classrooms
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Poets in the making: confirming identity in English
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Tell me your story: confirming identity and engaging writers in the middle years
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